JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Two U.S. military helicopters crashed Thursday in Alaska coming back from a coaching flight, the second accident involving navy helicopters within the state this 12 months. Each helicopter carried two individuals, stated John Pennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Ar...

The girl on the centre of one of the infamous episodes in US racial historical past, the lynching of black teenager Emmett Till, has died.Carolyn Bryant Donham, 88, died in a hospice in Louisiana on Tuesday. Her accusation that the 14-year-old Mr Till had whistled at her induced his loss of life by the hands of two white males, but additionally turned a catalyst for the civil rights motion.In August 1955, Mr Till was visiting kinfolk in Mississippi. Ms Donham, then 21 and referred to as Carolyn Bryant, accused him of creating improper advances on her on the retailer she labored at within the small neighborhood of Money.One of Mr Till's cousins, Reverend Wheeler Parker, mentioned that the boy whistled on the girl, an act that was opposite to the racist social codes of the peri...